Author: Carma Henry

“The cost of money”

How The Lowdown Get Down

With the start of the 2019/2020 school year approaching, Broward Health, Memorial Healthcare System, and Community Care Plan are pleased to announce the launch of Vaccinate Broward, a collaboration to ensure that children in Broward County are fully vaccinated. Vaccinate Broward will educate the public about disease prevention through vaccination, dispel common misconceptions about vaccinations, and provide free vaccinations to Broward County children and young adults on Saturday, Aug. 3, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

   Over 30 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes—including nearly 13% of all non-Hispanic Black people. According to the Office of Minority Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, African Americans are 80% more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes and the majority of them are women.

The Honorable Charles Dodson, Leon County Circuit Court Judge, has ruled in favor of the City of Fort Lauderdale along with 29 other municipalities, three counties, and more than 70 elected officials who challenged the constitutionality of civil penalties and removal provisions against local lawmakers who attempt to implement gun safety regulations.

“When you are building a business in a rapidly changing industry you are going to have to be ahead of the game,” said Jamarlin Martin, founder of digital magazines Bossip, Madam Noire, and Hip-Hop Wired. Martin told his 2006 journey in media to the attendees of the 4th Annual Get to Know Black Media Symposium. He decided 10 years ago to provide news and information to the underserved Black online consumer.

  Almost exactly an hour later, the president weighed in with tweets calling Cummings’s district “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” saying that “no human being would want to live there” and dubbing the congressman “a brutal bully.”

     As a part of Atlanta’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, the city is partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta to help secure mentors for the Atlanta boys who are currently on a waiting list to be matched with mentors.

     “The chairman has a direct responsibility for their membership and to be speaking for them in every way to make sure that their rights, their names, and all, are brought to the forefront of other publishers that comprise the board, and to develop policies,” Leavell said.

     The economic impact of HBCUs, their struggle to stay afloat, and the dire financial disparities faced by HBCU students are the reasons that Black Wealth 2020, a catalyst for Black  economic equality, recently decided to add HBCUs as a forth leg to its three-pronged focus to grow Black wealth through Black-owned businesses, Black banks and Black homeownership.”